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Where are the final decisions taken?

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The final decisions are taken in a silent room.

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पाठ 5.2: A Father to his Son - Exercise [पृष्ठ १६५]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 12 TN Board
पाठ 5.2 A Father to his Son
Exercise | Q 2. f) | पृष्ठ १६५

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Fill in the following empty boxes.

Name Location
Fort St. George Chennai
Gingee Fort ______
Golconda Fort ______
Red Fort ______

Why does the narrator say that the enemy was no threat at all?


Bring out the contrasting picture of the castle as depicted in stanzas 3 and 5.


Read the given line and answer the question that follow in a line or two.

Oh then our maze of tunneled stone
Grew thin and treacherous as air.
The castle was lost without a groan,
The famous citadel overthrown,
  1. Bring out the contrast in the first two lines.
  2. What is the rhyme scheme of the given stanza?

Our gates were strong, our walls were thick,


I will maintain until my death


Underline the alliterated word in the following line.

The wizened warder let them through.


Identify the figure of speech used in the following line.

Oh then our maze of tunneled stone


What is the creeper compared to?


How does the poet spend her winter?


The casuarina tree will be remembered forever. Why?


Read the line given below and answer the question that follow.

“Fear, trembling Hope, and Death, the skeleton,

And Time the shadow”, and though weak the verse

That would thy beauty fain, oh, fain rehearse,

May Love defend thee from oblivion’s curse.

  1. What does the poet mean by the expression ‘May love defend thee from oblivion’s curse?’
  2. What does the expression ‘fain’ convey?
  3. What does the poet convey through the expression ‘Fear, trembling Hope’?

Identify the figure of speech used in each of the extract given below and write down the answer in the space given below. 

“ A creeper climbs, in whose embraces bound

No other tree could live. But gallantly

The giant wears the scarf, and flowers are hung......”


How does a man play a lover’s role?


Read the poem once again carefully and identify the figure of speech that has been used in each of the following lines from the poem.

“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,

Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;
Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,

Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin’d,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon,

With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”

  1. “All the world's a stage”
  2. “And all the men and women merely players”
  3. “And shining morning face, creeping like snail”
  4. “Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,”
  5. “Seeking the bubble reputation”
  6. “His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide”
  7. “and his big manly voice, turning again toward childish treble”

Pick out the word in ‘alliteration’ in the following line.

“Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel.”


Describe the various stages of a man’s life picturised in the poem “All the World’s a stage."


Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.

There lies the port the vessel puffs her sail


Explain with reference to the context the following line.

I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees:


What makes Ulysses seek newer adventures?


What has twisted good men into thwarted worms?


What are the poet’s thoughts on ‘being different’?


The poet says

‘Without rich wanting nothing arrives’ but he condemns ‘the quest of lucre beyond a few easy needs.’ Analyse the difference and write.


Here are a few poetic device used in the poem.

Transferred Epithet- It is a figure of speech in which an epithet grammatically qualifies a noun other than the person or a thing, it is actually meant to describe.


Read the line given below and answer the question that follow.

Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong and the final decisions are made in silent rooms.

  1. Can being in solitude help a strong human being? How?
  2. Identify the figure of speech in the above line.

Pick out the alliterated words from the poem and write.

And this might stand him for the storms


Who do you think is the narrator of the poem?


Why did the rider keep his lips compressed?


Read the line given below and answer the question that follow.

‘You’re wounded!’ ‘Nay’, his soldier’s pride Touched to the quick, he said:

  1. Why did the boy contradict Napoleon’s words?
  2. Why was his pride touched?

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